[stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations

[Jacqueline Williams]

Myrna,
I just love your phrase, Tumbling Tercets.
You are a very inventive poet, and you may well be one of those "New
Formalists.:"
I have a sister who has gone through most of the poetic forms listed in the
book, "Awakening the Poet Within" by Anne Gassar, and then she developed her
own off-shoots. I try some of that, but I do not feel comfortable unless I
know the traditional form automatically. Somehow, I feel a form poem easier
to deal with as a blind person. The structure of something is definable by a
"white cane" . It takes tremendous concentration to keep the format in mind,
but I take it as a drill to keep the mind agile and working in precision
mode.
I love discussions of different forms and then trying them.
I admire your creativity and talent.
Jackie

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Subject: [stylist] Jackie, about the form used for my poem Interpretations

Thank you so much Jackie!  The form is as a said  a nonce form I made up 
one day using the simple tercet.  What makes this a  bit different is that I

let the third line of the tercet flow into the first  line of the next 
tercet.  You can use as many tercets as you wish as long  as the flow
pattern of 
third line flowing into first line is followed all the  way through.  The 
line lengths are not restricted and it is not metered but  that is an option

that is left to the individual writer. I have found however  that keeping
the 
line lengths somewhat consistent, without too great a  variation, helps the 
flow of the poem.  You may have a line of ten  syllables, then eight, and 
then perhaps nine.  As I said this is up to the  writer.  I added another 
wrinkle recently in that after the last stanza you  may add a one or two
line 
envoi.  I have this form 'tumbling  tercets'.  I do not know if anyone had 
done it quite this way before  although, of course, tercets are very common.
I 
will share another using  an envoi to demonstrate what that is all about.  
Thank you so much for your  questions and interest in the form.  I like it 
because it has that little  bit of structure while allowing me to write in 
free verse.
 
Myrna
 
 
 
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